Example sentences of "[been] [that] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 2 | The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition . |
| 3 | The reply has been that this converts effects into what they are not : chance or random events , and inexplicable events . |
| 4 | MPs are in the unique position of being able to vote themselves unlimited money from public funds : the dominant view among MPs has always been that this power must be exercised with restraint . |
| 5 | The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds . |
| 6 | Again , the assumption has been that this took place in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , because that is when documents mention the activities of lords and peasants in these areas . |
| 7 | But somebody else 's judgment might have been that this was a geographic clash . |